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It's been a big week as I just subscribed to a bunch of new feeds, here's what i have found so far:

• If you have ever struggled with brand recognition or quote/unquote professional design, check out Make My Logo Bigger Cream!
• A great article at Inc.com about five easy ways to set yourself up for failure.

If you are not sure if a particular web page sucks, there is a handy flow chart to help you out!

Aptana Studio 1.0

My web development IDE of choice, Aptana released version 1.0 today! They released both a Community (free) and Pro ($99) version.

What's New?

The name of the package has been changed from Aptana IDE to Aptana Studio. Aptana Studio has been given a bit of a face lift, the menus and tabs are cleaner looking. The Community Edition of Aptana Studio offers html, css and JavaScript code assist, FTP support, Gecko JavaScript Debugging and an integrated Visual Script Doc for starters.

Here's the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7

Abstraction

• 456 Berea Street
• A List Apart
• Accessites.org
• Best of Craigslist
• Bigger Than Cheeses
• Boing Boing
• Capitalism Magazine

In case you haven't been reading, here is the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 8

Getters and Setters

How that our classes are getting more secure we should consider preventing direct access to properties. To that end, we can set getter and setter methods that will, well, get and set the data members.

In case you haven't been reading, here is the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

Class Access Modifiers

Hey, remember access modifiers? Well, we can use that same concept for more than just properties. Just like before, you have public, protected and private modifiers for classes.

In case you haven't been reading, here is the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

Inheritance

Inheritance is the method in which a class is derived from another class, called a parent class.

Here's the cool stuff I ran across this week:

• Ever wonder what Google would look like if Google had to design Google to be indexed by Google, or just like the word 'Google'? Check out Mean Gene's rendition of how Google would look if it designed it's UI for Google.
• A List Apart just published the results from their first Web Design Survey, it's very enlightening.

What I have been reading this week:

• Flex and PHP are cooler than a mullet, says Cal Evans at the Zend Developer Zone
• Learn jQuery in 30 minutes or less with Nathan Smith's primer at Digital Web Magazine
• Brendan Sinclair tells us to Learn to Love Complaining Clients over at Sitepoint